We sell push button switch,LED lamp and signal lam

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Dear everyone,

Hope everything goes well to you.

I take this opportunity to introduce myself as one of well-established factories in Mainland,China.
We,Yueqing Tianyi Electrical Co.,LTD,are most specialized in manufacturing in push button,LED lamp,signal
lamp and warning light.So on in China with good profession and reputation in these field.Also you can
visit our website www.tianyiswitch.com to get more details.

We are not only doing business with domestic market,but also establishing buiness relationship with foreign customers.Our policy is providing our customer with best quality,competitive price,fastest delivery and full set of total service solutions.

Besides,we will be explain in details if the product you need or send the samples to you for reference.

If you have any inquiry,please do not hesitate to contact to me,my E-mail is monica.zhu122@gmail.com

Looking forwards to your any inquiry.
Best Regards
Monica

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Sure looks like spam to me.

Mods?

--Phil.

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I thought advertisements were not allowed here...

The same occurs in portuguese forum:
http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1191348866

but nothing happens...

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what do you mean with "nothing happens" ?

am I supposed to fly to china and tell them "bad bad girl!" ? :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

the forum is open to anybody... spam is bound to happen...

and in any case there are many forms of advertising going on in the forum and some is good

massimo

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I'm not sure what the right approach is here. On the one hand, we don't want spam in the forum. On the other hand, people advertising relevant products isn't necessarily spam and might be of interest to people. Certainly, we shouldn't be censoring discussion of competing products, and there's not necessarily a clear line between censorship and fighting spam. So far, I've taken the approach that anything which seems to have posted by a bot and unrelated to electronics or programming is clearly spam and should be deleted. Things that are relevant and appear to have been posted by a person, even if they're commercially motivated, I've been leaving. What do people think is appropriate?

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What do people think is appropriate?

How about a 'Commercial' forum with sections for hardware, software, and services (and perhaps a separate section for general electronics components). This would be the place where posters could announce new products and hold discussions for the purpose of enticing members to spend money on things that are Arduino related.

News and information here would be interesting for members and the understanding that these posts probably contain commercial bias will be more easily recognized than if the commercial posts are mixed in with the unbiased recommendations and advice in the current forums.

You may want to consider some ground rules if you want to keep things civil, like no posts slanging competitors products or maligning a supplier because of a product dispute.

But if the members think its a good thing to encourage information about commercial products here, then IMHO its best to keep this separate from the generally unbiased existing forums.

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what do you mean with "nothing happens" ?
the forum is open to anybody... spam is bound to happen...

Yes. This is foreseen:

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I don't think the user agreement is fake.

I think this forum sometimes is already hard to read, or to find the real info when we have a doubt about Arduino. If you accept explicit advertisement as a normal thing, one day this forum can become impossible to find/search answers. One, two or three advertisements is ok. But if the rules aren't considered, one day there will be more advertisements here than arduino info. And I don't think this is the meaning of this forum.

and in any case there are many forms of advertising going on in the forum and some is good

I think there are differences between people that come here, help others, with thousands of posts, and then put one post saying: You can find this in my store: www.XXX.XXX visit it, and people that come here just to post once saying: "I'm here to sell my products! Buy now! Only US$135.00"
The first type don't make me angry: they're helping people more (much more) than taking advantage.
It's clear to me that second type is just using to advantage of more than 4400 user already grouped. I'm talking against these ones.

If I want to buy a led, I can ask someone here (it's normal). People will say: "you can buy at XXX, they are great" (I don't think this is an advertisement, it's an experience exchange for me). Or you can google it. Or use yellow pages. This info has its space (that is not small) out there. There are ways to find them, even if we don't want it or need it (just take a walk, and watch the outdoors...). But try searching a space for Arduino free info?

I think there are three options here:

  • let things as they are: everybody can make advertisements here;
  • create an advertisement (commercial) area (mem suggestion);
  • filter manually the undesired advertisements, with people help (we can inform you) - The admin power is there for this too;
  • and to forbid all advertisements.

This last two can have punishments, like banish, or not.

Perhaps a poll (I think nobody used this tool until now) can solve this. I vote for three lasts.

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I am sorry,I am new comer and I do not know you dislike my title.I am a salesgirl and just want my business get better and better,sorry :frowning:

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am I supposed to fly to china and tell them "bad bad girl!" ? :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

Well, I would expect the "normal" forum response would be for the moderator to delete the post in question and say no more about it.

the forum is open to anybody... spam is bound to happen...

In the past few months this is the first obvious Spam message I've encountered here. Allowing unsolicited commerical postings can lead a forum succumbing from the "broken window" effect.

and in any case there are many forms of advertising going on in the forum and some is good

I think there's a big difference between something that's "spammy" and any other sort of subtle "advertisting" that goes on here.

To me, this comment: "I ... just want my business get better and better" indicates that the contribution of this person is not concerned about the well being of the Arduino forum community. If this post is considered acceptable then the next 100,000 posts from similar companies should be considered acceptable also, and I don't see how that helps us.

Personally, I think a message from a first time post that doesn't even explicitly mention something related to the Arduino should be considered spam.

Worst case scenario would be the creation of a "commercial" forum, but I wouldn't want to see the productive members of community who happen to mention a product they sell ghettoised there. Best case scenario, delete the OP post and the next one like it in six months time.

If not, there will be DOOOM, I tell you! :smiley:

--Phil.